The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) was an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It was manufactured by The...

ship in space this year". Reuters. Retrieved 28 February 2012. "VIRGIN GALACTIC BREAKS SPEED OF SOUND IN FIRST ROCKET-POWERED FLIGHT OF SPACESHIPTWO"...

VSS Unity (Virgin Space Ship Unity, registration: N202VG), previously referred to as VSS Voyager, is a retired SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered...

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Enterprise crash occurred on October 31, 2014, when the VSS Enterprise, a SpaceShipTwo experimental spaceflight test vehicle operated by Virgin Galactic, suffered...

follow SpaceShipTwo. It was first teased on the Virgin Galactic Twitter account on 25 February 2021 announcing the rollout of the first SpaceShip III plane...

Director of Flight Operations, and was one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo, the experimental spaceplanes developed by the company. On April...

with SpaceShipTwo would be successful, the follow-up would be known as SpaceShipThree. On 13 December 2018, VSS Unity achieved the SpaceShipTwo project's...

Carry Test Flight in Photos". Space.com. Retrieved 10 June 2024. "Virgin Galactic launches SpaceShipTwo to the edge of space". the Guardian. 13 December...

prototype rocket Vector-R 0.1 by Vector Space Systems December 13, 2018 - The VSS Unity, a Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo class vehicle, reaches suborbital spaceflight...

same market, suborbital space tourism, with the space capsule New Shepard and the spaceplane SpaceShipTwo, respectively. The two systems made their first...

also the first ship of the Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo class, based on upscaling the design of record-breaking SpaceShipOne. The VSS Enterprise's...

to work on developing SpaceShipTwo, but it has stopped predicting when commercial spaceflights will begin. A further SpaceshipTwo accident on October 31...

Galactic 03 (G03) was a crewed sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity, launched on 8 September 2023. It was the third commercial spaceflight...

commercial program to achieve sub-orbital flight was Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo program in 2018. Criteria for commercial astronaut status in other countries...

sub-orbital flight; examples include crewed vehicles, such as the X-15 and SpaceShipTwo, and uncrewed ones, such as ICBMs and sounding rockets. Flights which...

Mojave, California. In 2015, he joined Virgin Galactic to work on the SpaceShipTwo program. As of 2023, he had logged 8,000 flying hours on 170 different...

function. Two piloted suborbital rocket-powered aircraft have reached space: the North American X-15 and SpaceShipOne; a third, SpaceShipTwo, has crossed...

on October 31, 2014, during test flight PF04 of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise. Michael was born to Rich and Linda Alsbury in Santa Clara...

Lynx would take off from a runway under rocket power. Unlike SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo, Lynx would not require a mothership. Lynx was designed for...

On October 22, a ceremonial flypass of Spaceport America was made by SpaceShipTwo to celebrate the completion of the runway. By October 2010, with the...

Beth Moses is chief space flight participant instructor and interiors program manager for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo program, and a commercial astronaut...

for the successful launch of SpaceShipOne twice in a row in two weeks, which were the criteria. In 2010, the SpaceShipTwo launch vehicle began launching...

occurred during testing of SpaceShipTwo's systems, killing three employees and injuring three more. On October 31, 2014, the SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise broke...

Group, which is developing a privately funded spacecraft called SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo, in conjunction with Scaled Composites to offer sub-orbital...

of more space launch capacity. Private spaceflight accomplishments to date include flying suborbital spaceplanes (SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo), launching...

MotherShip (VMS) Eve (Tail number: N348MS) is a carrier mothership for Virgin Galactic and launch platform for SpaceShipTwo-class Virgin SpaceShips. VMS...

Galactic's Virgin SpaceShip program. Virgin Galactic was announced to be the launch customer for the SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo vehicles. Virgin placed...

Galactic 04 was a crewed sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity, which launched on 6 October 2023. It was the fourth commercial spaceflight...

onboard. SpaceShipOne, another rocket plane, completed the first private sub-orbital spaceflight in 2004 and led to the development of SpaceShipTwo. The Blue...